Hello,
Not much mail the past few days so I will try to catch up on some past mail. If your mail has not been posted, send it again. I sometimes lose mail or delete it by mistake. I may not include mail that is too long , too political or includes language that might be offensive to paratroopers.
I t would be best if you do not use too large print since it doesn't say any more but takes up more space.
Ben
Website--www.517prct.org
Maill Call---Ben517@aol.com
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Subj: Fwd: ASOM Update
Date: 3/12/2003 8:56:01 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: Ben517
From: ptremblay@asomf.org
Airborne & Special Operations Museum Update
10 March 2003
For more information visit the museum website at:
www.asomf.org
1. ROBIN MOORE AT THE ASOM
Join us as we welcome Robin Moore, author of The Green Berets and The French Connection, to the museum. Mr. Moore will be signing copies of his new book, The Hunt for Bin Laden.
Saturday, 15 March, 11am - 3pm.
2. This month in airborne and special operations history
Activations
2Mar42, 503 Parachute Infantry
4Mar84, 2 & 3 BN, 1 Special Forces Group
26Mar63, 173 Airborne Brigade
Jumps
24Mar45, Varsity (17 ABN DIV, Germany)
23Mar51, Tomahawk (187 ARCT, Korea)
17Mar88, Golden Pheasant (82 ABN DIV, Honduras)
Medal of Honor
25 March, National Congressional Medal of Honor Day
24Mar45, *PVT George Peters, 507 PIR, Germany
24Mar45, *PFC Stuart Stryker, 513 PIR, Germany
28Mar45, *TSGT Clinton Hedrick, 194 GIR, Germany
16Mar66, SP4 Alfred Rascon, 173 ABN, Vietnam
21Mar67, *MSG Charles Hoskings, 5 SFG, Vietnam
19Mar68, CPT Paul Bucha, 101 ABN, Vietnam
20Mar69, *CPL Terry Kawamura, 173 ABN, Vietnam
24Mar69, *SFC William Bryant, 5 SFG, Vietnam
23Mar71, SP4 Michael Fitzmaurice, 101 ABN, Vietnam
* denotes posthumous award
Other
31Mar58, LTG James Gavin retires
23Mar94, Plane crash at Pope AFB kills 23, injures over 100 more
Support the ASOM! For more information, visit www.asomf.org/participation.htm
AIRBORNE!
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Subj: St Patrick's Day
Date: 3/7/2003 7:48:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517
~*~ All Through This Day(Irish Blessing) ~*~
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Subj: FW: FW: letter from Charlie Daniels.
Date: 3/7/2003 10:37:31 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: carlosdavis22@hotmail.com( Carlos Davis )
To: Ben517@aol.com
An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch from Charlie Daniels
Ok let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.
Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with some white wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what we've done for world peace.
Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world and bring the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade sanctions against everybody.
I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world where everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the United States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would have disbanded it's horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the world would follow suit.
After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.
Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps. Get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton murderer to think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the guts to fight him?
Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush makes about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.
You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into the real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out here.
Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.
Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the United States has no right to defend itself.
Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the folks down there think about you.
You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little, "fact finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we didn't have the stomach for war.
You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom of choice you say?
Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see any of your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly wouldn't be much of a loss.
You scoff at our military who's boots you're not even worthy to shine. They go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in luxury.
The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the undeniable truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.
America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against her. There is no middle ground.
I think we all know where you stand.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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Subj: America's Best
Date: 3/9/2003 8:46:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517
A California mother whose son is right now in Kuwait poised to knock Saddam'
s block off, wrote her son asking how he would feel if she joined other
relatives of service members in an anti-war demonstration in Hollywood last
month. After reading her son's response, she elected not to participate.
You can read Navy corpsman Lonnie J. Lewis' full letter, reprinted on
Saturday in the Las Vegas Review Journal, by going to:
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Mar-08-Sat-2003/news/20846821.h
tml>
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-Subj: Must've Benn the French-Trained Iragis
Date: 3/10/2003 9:02:54 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517
"Terrified Iraqi soldiers who thought the war had already started, crossed
the Kuwait border and tried to surrender to British forces, according to a
report in the London Sunday Mirror. The drama unfolded last Monday, when a
dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested mortars and
artillery weapons to make sure they were working.
"The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off
with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches. The stunned troops
were forced to tell the Iraqis they weren't firing at them, and ordered them
back to their home country, telling them it was too early to surrender."
- WorldNetDaily, 3/9/03
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Subj: The Main Event
Date: 3/8/2003 8:29:47 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517
"The coming battle with Iraq is Stalingrad for the terrorist chieftains. If
they lose it, they're toast, and they know it. If Saddam Hussein is ousted,
the terrorists will lose arguably their No. 1 state sponsor; land
communication between Iran and Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon will be
broken; Iran will be surrounded by secular, pro-Western Muslim states and be
ripe for regime change from within. Syria and Libya will become more
nervous about sheltering terrorists.
"The fight against Saddam Hussein isn't a distraction from the war on
terror. It is the main event."
- Columnist, former Marine and Green Beret Jack Kelly
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